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Here are a few additional recruiting ideas:
1. Have a Cub Scout Coloring Coral at your school's registration day. Take the kiddies off Mom's hands so she can go through the lines with minimal distruption. Keep the kids busy with your older scouts and Den Leader personnel. Have simple coloring pages, an easy craft, word searches, other puzzles. And, of course, have your tri-fold board with wonderful Cub Scout pictures and brochures with your Pack's JSN information. Provide a service and market, all at the same time.
2. Use your car for advertising .... white shoe polish or special "window" markers will do the trick. Have several Pack parents decorate their car and be sure to park in visible spots the few days before and including JSN!
3. Have a clever give-away, like inscribed pencils (CUB SCOUTS ROCKS!).
4. On JSN, as parents are lining up to check-out, have organzied games (with leaders and some of the older scouts) to keep them occupied so the parents can finish filling out their forms and complete the registration process.
5. If your principal will allow, set-up a table with tri-fold display, brochures, flyers, etc. at MEET THE TEACHER (usually the day or so before school starts). Be sure to man the booth with Leaders and Scouts in uniform.
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To help your Pack be successful at recruiting new scouts, we’ve compiled this list of ideas …. Try them, refine them, put a new spin on them …. Whatever you think will work best! Then let us know what worked well and what didn’t, so we can continually revise this document. By sharing our ideas, we will all benefit!
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Tried and true. Very effective where you can use it!. Requires permission from principal and co-operation from teachers. Gather eligible boys, either all together or by grade level. Lunch or recess time is usually successful. Usually timed for the day of JOIN SCOUTING NIGHT (JSN).
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This can be any sort of fun activity that would entice elementary aged boys to come check-out Scouting. This can be simply inviting potential recruits to an already scheduled summer Pack activity, or it can be a separate event focused primarily on recruiting held very proximate to JSN.
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If allowed, have a display table at your school’s Packet Pick-up/Registration event.
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Many elementary schools have parent information nights very early in the school year, usually during the first two weeks. These are generally grade level specific meetings where the teachers address the parents concerning what to expect that school year.
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The district will provide your Pack with 2 yard signs to advertise JSN. If you have the budget, consider have additional yard signs made specific to your Pack.
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Consider purchasing one or two banners that say, “JOIN CUB SCOUTING” or even “JOIN CUB SCOUTING TONIGHT, (name of school), (time).”
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The District can provide you with two posters to post in your school, depending on principal approval.
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The District can provide you with a CD version of a short 2 minute video presentation about Scouting. With the principal’s permission, this could be broadcast during the elementary school’s morning video announcements. Some PISD principals allowed this last year; some did not. But the KIDS LOVED IT!
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Most schools have a receptacle where outside parties can place flyers, postcards or other information.
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As with any product, word of mouth advertising is often the cheapest and best advertising. Your existing scouts (and parents) are a great source for new scouts.
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On the day of JSN, especially if rallies are not allowed at your school, you want to plan a “blitz” during the morning carpool and bus arrival time.
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The District will provide your Pack with a copy (EXCEL file) of the mailing list for all boys within your PISD school. The District will also mail a postcard invitation to all the eligible boys on this mailing list.
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While most packs are based out of elementary schools, do think about other sources of elementary aged children in your geographic neighborhoods.
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